12:11 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

SEC commissioner Mike Slive's league will be the third with its own TV network starting in August 2014.

Written by

Jonathan Lintner
jlintner@courier-journal.com

The Southeastern Conference announced Thursday that its television network, which will feature a roving College Gameday-like preview show and football tripleheaders on Saturdays, launches in just over a year.

The new station is expected to start programming at 7 p.m. Aug. 21, 2014, when the SEC will join the Big Ten and Pac-12 as leagues with their own channels.

"We are 399 days, nine hours, and roughly 43 minutes away from the network launch," Justin Connolly, ESPN's Vice President, told reporters Thursday morning at SEC Media Days. "We will use every second of that time to create, build, ...